Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe repetition
Below is a list of describing words for repetition. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe repetition:
- hundredth automatic
- vain and tedious
- fourth angry
- obstinate, painful
- cantoral
- useless and confusing
- silent and eternal
- several thousandth
- genuinely endless
- constant and dreary
- mechanical and parrot-like
- apparent exact
- hoarse but vociferous
- consequent eager
- effective and undisturbed
- constant, solemn
- wont, frequent
- exact hereditary
- unbalanced perpetual
- unusual and jealous
- senseless, dull
- ripe and royal
- numbing historical
- trite and stale
- worth frequent
- degrading, servile
- monotonous and mindless
- needless or disagreeable
- painful and plain-spoken
- meaningless ministerial
- enigmatic, appealing
- historical and thankful
- spare perpetual
- obscure and incessant
- much thunderous
- perpetual and wearisome
- useless and thoughtless
- unceasing, monotonous
- insistent, feverish
- conscious, explicit
- needless or meaningless
- formal and circumstantial
- easy and superficial
- confident and incessant
- decidedly needless
- endless but monotonous
- further rhythmic
- inadvertent and negligent
- feeble, grown-up
- constant voluntary
- possibly wearisome
- poignant haunting
- frequent and disagreeable
- dead, unending
- mere seven-fold
- multitudinous and petty
- ecstatic and almost hysterical
- formal and careless
- curious ridiculous
- consequent endless
- lifelong, monotonous
- ultimate energetic
- quick continual
- wearisome and dull
- wearisome, pitiless
- incessant compulsory
- similar and equally dramatic
- timid and slavish
- incessant, inaudible
- constant conventional
- annual or even millennial
- inarticulate mechanical
- morbid and purposeless
- endless, unreasoning
- frequent correct
- exceedingly graceful and spirited
- parrot-like, mechanical
- diffuse and florid
- hideous boring
- slow and seemingly dazed
- eternal and wearisome
- deliberate and equally distinct
- monotonous and almost mechanical
- polite and rather formal
- unconscious, persistent
- calm and civil
- much indefinite
- fancy and endless
- possible unnecessary
- quasi-biblical
- endless mechanical
- apparently audacious
- frequent and solemn
- tiresome and endless
- perhaps vain
- extreme slow-motion
- usual mind-numbing
- incessant mind-numbing
- dull rhythmic
- tenth vehement
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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